Analyze This
The art, practice, and study of using language and other symbols effectively to inform, persuade, or motivate an audience is called what?
What is rhetoric
This is the narrative perspective from which a story is told
Point of View
This is what you call words you enter into a research database.
Key terms
When Peter Elbow says, "The consequence [of writing] is that you must start by writing the wrong meanings in the wrong words; but keep writing until you get to the right meanings in the right words. Only in the end will you know what you are saying" he is describing this writing practice.
Freewriting
This is the full title of our textbook.
Writing Effects - Practical Techniques for the College Writer
Sarah McLaughlin's ASPCA ad is a prime example of which rhetorical appeal?
Pathos
Word choice in writing is also called
Diction
T or F: Scholarly sources are the only reputable sources.
False
This states the main argument, central claim, or purpose of an essay or research paper
Thesis Statement
"I went to the store, because I was hungry," is an example of this perspective.
First
The Gap ad Better in Denim uses a well-known song by Katseye to establish this.
Ethos
This describes the set of rules, principles, and patterns that govern how you arrange words, phrases, and clauses to form complete, meaningful sentences.
Syntax
Paraphrase, Summary, and _____ are three ways of incorporating outside sources.
Quotation
A good ______ will:
Destabilize that common ground with a new perspective on, or a disagreement about, that common ground.
Explain why the disagreement or new perspective matters.
Give a clear and distinct thesis sentence.
Introduction
Sherman Alexei's essay "Superman and Me" is an example of this kind of writing.
Literacy Narrative / Personal Narrative
These are the three points of the rhetorical situation triangle.
Rhetor, Audience, Purpose
Man in a hole is one example of this.
Narrative
_____ indent is required formatting in an MLA Works Cited page.
Hanging
Topic Sentence, Supporting Evidence, ________, and Conclusion/Transition are all parts of a Body Paragraph.
Analysis (so what?)
Freytag's Pyramid is a narrative sturcture that follows this pattern: Inciting Incident → Rising Action→ Climax → _______→ Resolution
Falling Action
This is the reason a rhetorical situation exists, the event or force that makes a rhetor realize that they need to respond.
Exigence
This describes the break on a pages between two sections of writing.
White space
This describes simple words (AND, OR, NOT) used in academic databases and search engines to connect, narrow, or broaden your research queries.
Boolean Operators
Describe, Compliment, Suggestion, Question are all parts of a this form of review.
Peer Review
This author wrote the following line, "Wash the white clothes on Monday and put them on the stone heap; wash the color clothes on Tuesday and put them on the clothesline to dry; don’t walk bare-head in the hot sun..."
Jamaica Kincaid